Tag: hunger

The World Food Program (WFP) warns that, “millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the spectra of famine a very real and dangerous possibility.”

"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."

Parity is at the core of agriculture’s potential to address overproduction.

"More than five million children in Latin America are permanently malnourished. In a continent of abundant food, a continent of upper-middle- and high-income countries, five million children ... It's unacceptable."

"In the race to beat food insecurity, achieve zero hunger, and address climate change, we must pay attention to the soil."

Now, roughly 11 percent of the world's population is facing food insecurity.

Famine in these four countries is avoidable.

Poverty, malnutrition, and hunger are a result of politics, not scarcity.

It is time to design an economic system that allows for the required sharing of food, water, land and other natural resources, as well as knowledge and skills.

Donor countries also have a long-term responsibility to the people they purport to support. To this end the governments of Britain, America and the European Union must ensure that the Ethiopian government put in place visionary plans to mitigate the impact of any future drought.